[quote=svelte]
Out of this I’m interested in:
[quote=ucodegen]
‘Heavy’ weapons would change ‘people at large’ to a small group or single individual.[/quote]
I don’t believe “heavy weapons” was mentioned in the Federalist Papers. And where did you get the “people at large” versus “small group or single individual”?
Again, not in the Federalist Papers.
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Actually the use of ‘people at large’ is used in the Federalist Papers – I took a quote from Hamilton who contributed.
When the Federalist Papers were written, they did not distinguish between heavy weapons and light. They felt that any citizen should be able to own a cannon. They did not conceive of hand weapons being able to fire at rates of several hundreds of rounds per minute.
[quote=svelte]
If your argument is that a grenade should be illegal because it can allow a single individual to take out a large number of people (which appears to be what you’re saying), then you obviously think automatic guns should be illegal too.[/quote]
I assume by automatic, you mean ‘machine’ or fully automatic. I feel that these should be highly regulated – at a federal firearms license level. Defense contractors use the federal firearms license to be able to build equipment for them or build the weapons themselves.
